The NXR Podcast - March 17, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - It Matters Where A Christian Lives

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Tim Keller Joe Biden
DAILY TRUTH - The Dating Of The Book Of Hebrews QUESTIONS - Is “School Choice” A Form Of Theft？

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1,656

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91

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In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken teaches on the importance of being a church plantor in urban environments, and why it s important to be a church planter and not just a church missionary. God bless!

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00:00:00 All right, listen, guys, I get it.
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00:00:37 take the time to do so. Thank you so much. God bless. Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone,
00:00:44 but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:49 urban inner city ministry that was all the rage and still is i don't know how but
00:00:58 apparently still is for the last 30 years 40 years right it's like if you want to be somebody
00:01:05 if you want to be a serious christian you need to be a pastor and not just a pastor you need
00:01:10 to be a church planter and not just a church planter if you go plant a church in a small
00:01:15 town in texas or tennessee we're not going to say it verbatim but i mean you're kind of 0.75
00:01:20 disappointing god right you're going to go minister to those those primitive neanderthal 0.74
00:01:28 blue collar flyover country hillbilly christians no no no you want to you want to do something 0.88
00:01:34 that pleases the lord go to manhattan right go to seattle and i i personally think
00:01:44 that in the last 30 years
00:01:46 that an immense amount of discipleship
00:01:50 has happened
00:01:50 in the ministry of Tim Keller.
00:01:56 The problem is I think
00:01:57 that the discipleship happened
00:01:59 the other way around.
00:02:01 I think that New York
00:02:02 has discipled Tim Keller really well.
00:02:07 I don't think that Tim Keller
00:02:08 has discipled New York.
00:02:11 I think he lost.
00:02:12 and so i don't think that it's particularly advantageous for us to continue to encourage
00:02:19 young men who are called to marry to have children to honor their father and mother in tangible ways
00:02:27 provide for their wives so that predominantly they could be keepers at home provide for their
00:02:31 children seek to fill a quiver with children not hand them to caesar in the public school system 0.72
00:02:37 but to raise them up in the fear and ammunition of the lord the paideia of the lord christian
00:02:42 curriculum and seek to leave an inheritance not only to their children but their children's
00:02:46 children and then say and you should do that while being a church planter in manhattan
00:02:51 what no no no just just leave outside the gate outside the city no just leave you don't have to
00:03:03 go and plant in manhattan you don't have to go to seattle you don't have to be a church planter
00:03:07 or a missionary, or a faithful Christian in San Francisco. God may call some to stay in those
00:03:13 contexts. But I believe currently, this isn't for all times and all places, but the sons of Issachar,
00:03:18 the skill that they had was they were able to know the times. We as Christians need to be able
00:03:24 to know the times. Not just ideologues that think that, well, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. It's
00:03:31 always, we don't need to be ideologues, but we also don't need to be opportunists. So we don't
00:03:37 just stick our finger in the wind and see whatever the popular culture is saying at the time, and we
00:03:41 just echo that. We're not opportunists who are compromised, but we're also not foolish ideologues
00:03:47 who are suicidal, kamikaze fighters. No, no, no, no. We want to have not just a five-year plan, 0.97
00:03:58 but a 500-year plan. We want to build to last. If you want to be a farmer, don't start a crop
00:04:06 in the Sahara Desert.
00:04:08 Move.
00:04:10 And say, well, but I just want to be faithful.
00:04:13 And I just want to prove
00:04:15 that I'm the best farmer who ever was.
00:04:17 Okay, well, you could do that
00:04:18 by growing one potato
00:04:19 in the Sahara Desert.
00:04:22 Or you could be the best farmer there ever was
00:04:24 by growing the most potatoes
00:04:25 that have ever been grown in Idaho.
00:04:28 Why not opt for the latter? 0.79
00:04:30 Well, there are people in the Sahara
00:04:31 that need a potato.
00:04:33 Yeah, you know what?
00:04:34 Well, you can ship them
00:04:35 a million potatoes from Idaho instead of carving up and sharing one that you grew right there
00:04:40 at ground zero. We can't afford to be ideologues and suicidal. We also cannot afford to be
00:04:50 compromised opportunists who just go where the wind blows. But I believe in this current moment,
00:04:56 a very practical application of our text, the Hebrew Christians, ultimately the big idea that
00:05:01 I'm trying to get at with this text and I'll land the plane here. The big idea is this. If Christ is
00:05:06 really enough, then you don't need Judaism. If Christ is really enough and the temple that he's 0.99
00:05:15 building is a living and spiritual temple, then you don't need this geographic place. You don't
00:05:22 need this temple of stone. You don't need this city that crucified him, but you could actually
00:05:27 follow him he was taken outside of the city to be put to death and you can go and find him right out
00:05:32 there and you as christians you you can seek to live quiet lives as the scripture says elsewhere
00:05:39 to work with your hands you are allowed to do that brothers and sisters and any high-minded
00:05:45 sophisticated ivory tower seminary professor professional pastor on the internet who tells
00:05:51 you otherwise is lying. You are not being faithless or compromising or being displeasing to God by
00:06:00 saying, I want to raise children. I want to have grandchildren. I want to own a couple acres of
00:06:05 land, and I'm going to do it, not in Manhattan. You're allowed to do that, brother and sister.
00:06:09 You're allowed to do that. And that doesn't mean you quit. It doesn't mean you surrendered. It
00:06:13 doesn't mean you lost. It doesn't mean you sinned. I think it means you're wise. And to do the
00:06:19 alternative i think is foolish some can do it if you're a millionaire okay maybe you can do it
00:06:29 even then though i would make an argument theologically and practically some can do it 0.82
00:06:35 live in that bright blue liberal city and a blue state some can do it even then you have to make
00:06:42 a reasonable biblical argument that you should do it what do your taxes go to is there a state tax
00:06:50 all right let's let's read it do you see Planned Parenthood popping out
00:06:54 are you literally giving money to kill children okay let's just do some math here
00:07:01 can I live here can I live here those are questions that Christians should ask real 0.85
00:07:10 questions and i understand that well well i'm gonna have to go to the the moon all right well
00:07:16 let's keep rooting for elon then you know like i i understand no matter where you live you're gonna
00:07:20 have you're gonna be you're gonna be funding something that's vile but not all evils are equal
00:07:27 i don't like paying property taxes for schools that i'm not even going to use
00:07:32 especially schools in the austin area and surrounding that that you walk in and it's like
00:07:39 it's just like you're swimming in a rainbow. I don't like that. But there is a lesser and greater
00:07:46 of evils. And the Christian can't opt for supporting a public school that's progressive
00:07:52 and liberal versus supporting health care that sucks babies out of their mothers with a vacuum. 0.99
00:07:59 Those are not equal. There is a sliding scale. And we have a choice where we're going to raise
00:08:06 our kids, where we're going to start a business, where we're going to pay our taxes. We have a
00:08:12 choice what church we're going to be a part of. We have a choice what land we're going to buy and
00:08:17 leave as an inheritance to our grandkids. Right now, you have an opportunity to be thinking about
00:08:23 not the five-year plan, but the 500-year plan. Where can I best set up my great, great, great
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00:08:54 economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years 0.98
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